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Good news for anxious boomers: playing jazz keeps you young. At the end of a quarter-century of grueling one-nighters, guitarist Pat Metheny still has the same easy small-town grin and messy mop of gopher brown hair seen on the back cover of his very first solo album; he also has a 15-month-old son, Nicolas Djakeem, on whom he dotes in between far-flung gigs. Twenty-five years and 25 albums after his hugely influential Bright Size Life helped nudge jazz and rock closer together, Metheny, 45, continues to play for delighted crowds everywhere from Istanbul...
...best known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group, the long-lived fusion quartet whose richly textured, Brazilian-flavored albums, with their smooth synthesized surfaces, appeal to listeners for whom jazz is normally a four-letter word. But Metheny has always made a point of playing and recording in a variety of other styles as well. His tastes are exceptionally wide-ranging--he's equally fond of Igor Stravinsky, avant-garde jazzman Ornette Coleman and the Beatles--and when he's not on the road with the Metheny Group, there's no telling what kind of music...
Forbes knows there is no chance of beating Bush in Iowa, but the Hail Mary strategy is to finish a strong second, as Pat Buchanan did in 1996, and wobble Bush just enough that Senator John McCain can pile on, whupping Bush in New Hampshire Feb. 1. Then, goes the theory, people will ask what they ever saw in Bush anyway. And if this should happen, the man who could outspend all the candidates combined is--guess...
Depends on the year. In the last go-around and for most of his life, Forbes kept his religion privatized. If anything, he offended social conservatives by calling Pat Robertson a toothy flake and saying that if a woman were raped, she had a right to an abortion. But when President Clinton put the hallelujah back in Republican politics, the Lord Jesus suddenly gave Steve Forbes the courage to testify for faith-based leadership. You'd think such a swift conversion might backfire, but there's little evidence of it in Iowa. Steve Scheffler, leader of the state's Christian...
...prompted Bush to proclaim he had "the Big Mo," and prompted an NBC analyst to suggest that "Ronald Reagan is politically dead." Eight years later, it was future President Bush's turn to be not just defeated but also crushed with a third-place finish. That was the year Pat Robertson dominated headlines with a second-place finish. It was also the year Dick Gephardt won the Democratic contest, while Michael Dukakis finished third. It's possible, of course, that front runners Bush and Gore could both win Iowa and lose New Hampshire, then go on to win their nominations...